u/Asleep_Bet_9778

I want to know how can join such like-minded people. I live in india so only option is remote maybe sometime in person . None of my friends are into business or tech. For business they want to open a school or something so don’t see any collaboration happening

Management wanted to ship stuff very fast. They wanted to use Claude because why not. We decided to skip QA because of ownership. And while testing so many things broke and they were like, “What are you doing?”. I almost lost my temper, good thing this discussion happen on slack and I was able to refine my messages. Why the hell Indian management are so dumb?

Hi,
I work remotely so it gets boring sometimes . Looking for some like minded people. Brownie points if you are ambitious and want accountability partner

I used to be very picky when it comes to PR review. Would want everything neat, tidy no violation of DRY. In case of business priorities would merge but ask Dev to address issues in follow up PR. Now it’s just AI slop. It does the job but it’s hard to look at.

I’m working on an app idea around delayed gratification.

The basic concept is a “dopamine wallet”:

You earn points by doing things that are good for you:

- reading a chapter

- deep work

- workout

- journaling

- cleaning

- staying off social media

Then you spend those points on rewards:

- Instagram

- YouTube

- gaming

- movies

- dessert

- ordering food

- guilt-free rest

So instead of saying “never use Instagram,” the app says:

Earn it first.

Example:

Reading 1 chapter gives you 100 points.

15 minutes of Instagram costs 100 points.

But the economy adapts over time. If reading becomes easy, maybe it gives you 90 points instead of 100. If you use Instagram too often, its cost goes up. There’s also a “piggy bank” where unused points earn interest if you don’t spend them immediately.

The app would feel like a premium black-and-white banking app, not a childish habit tracker.

The goal is not productivity for the sake of productivity. The goal is to train the ability to wait before pleasure.

Would you use something like this, or does it sound too complicated?

I’m building an app called Before.

It’s basically a realistic bucket list planner.

I always found normal bucket list apps kind of useless because they just store dreams. They don’t tell you whether something is actually realistic.

For example, if someone wants to do Japan, Europe, a marathon, Northern Lights, and scuba diving, the real question is not “add this to a list.”

The real questions are:

Can I afford it?

How long will it take?

What should I do first?

What becomes harder with age?

What needs fitness prep?

What should wait?

What tradeoff am I making?

So the app takes basic context like age, income/savings capacity, city/country, vacation days, travel style, life stage, and optional fitness readiness, then creates a roadmap.

Each goal gets a reality score, cost estimate, timeline, best timing, preparation steps, and tradeoff warning.

Example:

“Japan Trip — Stretch — realistic in 14–18 months.”

“Marathon — Needs fitness prep.”

“Europe — Not realistic yet unless you delay Japan.”

I’m testing the beta now.

Looking for brutal feedback:

- Is this useful or overthinking?

- Would you enter this kind of information?

- Should this focus only on travel first?

- Would you pay for this if the roadmap was actually good?

I can share TestFlight with anyone interested.

For the past few months, a few friends and I have been running a simple system. At the start of every month, each of us promises a goal — usually gym, sometimes writing, sometimes "no sugar." We each put $10 on the line.

The rules:

• I skip my goal → I pay the friend $10
• He skips his → he pays me $10
• We both skip → the $20 goes to a third friend or to a charity none of us picked

It's stupidly simple, but it's been the most consistent accountability mechanism any of us has ever stuck with. Apps, habit trackers, journals — none of it worked the way a $10 bet with a friend works. Loss aversion + a real human watching is something different.

I've been thinking about turning this into an app, but I want to gut-check the idea before I write a line of code.

The concept:

• Buy a coin (real money, ~$5)
• Stake the coin on a quest with a fixed end date and a daily check-in
• Win the quest → coin comes back
• Fail → coin goes to charity
• 3 wins in a row → bonus coin as a gift
• Eventually: leaderboard, friend pacts, partner-confirmed quests

The thing I keep coming back to: the magic in our friend system isn't the money. It's that someone I respect is watching. An app can replicate the money part easily. I'm not sure it can replicate the "someone is watching" part without being creepy.

Questions I'd love honest answers on:

1. Would you actually stake real money on yourself, or is this only fun when a specific human is on the other side?
2. Is "money to charity on failure" enough sting, or does it need to go to a specific person to hurt right?
3. What goals would you personally stake on? (Trying to figure out if the binary "did you do it today" model breaks for fuzzy goals like "prepare for marathon" or "work on startup.")
4. Are there apps in this space you've tried (Stickk, Beeminder, Habitica)? What worked, what didn't?

Not pitching anything — there's no app yet, no waitlist, no link. Just trying to figure out if this is a real thing worth building before I sink weekends into it.

For the past few months, a few friends and I have been running a simple system. At the start of every month, each of us promises a goal — usually gym, sometimes writing, sometimes "no sugar." We each put $10 on the line.

The rules:

• I skip my goal → I pay the friend $10
• He skips his → he pays me $10
• We both skip → the $20 goes to a third friend or to a charity none of us picked

It's stupidly simple, but it's been the most consistent accountability mechanism any of us has ever stuck with. Apps, habit trackers, journals — none of it worked the way a $10 bet with a friend works. Loss aversion + a real human watching is something different.

I've been thinking about turning this into an app, but I want to gut-check the idea before I write a line of code.

The concept:

• Buy a coin (real money, ~$5)
• Stake the coin on a quest with a fixed end date and a daily check-in
• Win the quest → coin comes back
• Fail → coin goes to charity
• 3 wins in a row → bonus coin as a gift
• Eventually: leaderboard, friend pacts, partner-confirmed quests

The thing I keep coming back to: the magic in our friend system isn't the money. It's that someone I respect is watching. An app can replicate the money part easily. I'm not sure it can replicate the "someone is watching" part without being creepy.

Questions I'd love honest answers on:

1. Would you actually stake real money on yourself, or is this only fun when a specific human is on the other side?
2. Is "money to charity on failure" enough sting, or does it need to go to a specific person to hurt right?
3. What goals would you personally stake on? (Trying to figure out if the binary "did you do it today" model breaks for fuzzy goals like "prepare for marathon" or "work on startup.")
4. Are there apps in this space you've tried (Stickk, Beeminder, Habitica)? What worked, what didn't?

Not pitching anything — there's no app yet, no waitlist, no link. Just trying to figure out if this is a real thing worth building before I sink weekends into it.